Season

1980-81

Play

West Moon

Run Dates

October 31, 1980–November 2, 1980

November 4, 2025–November 9, 2025

Header image features: Ed Keilly (top row), Janis Spence, Jim Payne, Pat Byrne, Sheilagh Guy, Sherry Smith (bottom row), Judy Parsons, Kevin Noble. Photo courtesy of Archives & Special Collections at Memorial University Libraries.

Poster by Gerald Squires.

Playwright

Al Pittman

Director

Rhonda Payne

Cast

Clyde Ros Narrator
Rick Boland Nish Rogers
Kevin Noble Ned Shea
Sheilagh Guy Murphy Bride Sullivan
Pat Byrne Capt. Bill Sullivan
Judy Parsons Shiela Connors
Ed Kielley Jack Leonard
Jim Payne Ray Dwyer
Janis Spence Maggie Green
Sherri Smith Rose Hepditch
Greg Thomey Aaron Leonard

Crew

Gerry Squires Production Designer
Stewart Montgomerie Production Designer

Description

The program for the 1980 show provided this description: “The setting of West Moon is a graveyard in St. Kevin’s, an imaginary community in Placentia Bay. There is an old superstition in Newfoundland that the spirits of the dead rise from their graves on All Souls Night. Pittman plays with this concept restoring the voices and memories of the Dead for a few hours one night every year.”